Verion 2.0b4 how does cgi's nagios_check_command work?

[Andreas Ericsson]

John P. Rouillard wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> I have groveled through the cgi files in nagios 2.0b4 and I can't find
> any instance of the nagios_check_command actually being executed. Am I
> just missing it somewhere?
> 

The nagios_check_command has been incorporated into the cgi's. That's 
why the status.dat file has the nagios entry on top.

>     cgiutils.c load the variable from the config file
>     extinfo.c  checks to see if the variable is empty and produces a nice
>                little warning if it is.
> 
> but nothing seems to actually execute the command. The reason I ask is
> that nagios was down and the cgi's all happily reported that it was
> up. Could this be because the host and service status files were
> available since the machine crashed?
> 

Yes, that's almost certainly it. There is no really good way of 
detecting that nagios is actually running unless you're logged in as 
root. Noone (sane) runs their webserver as root.

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